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    <p>MSDN's documentation about <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330740%28v=VS.85%29.aspx">Notifications and the Notification Area</a> is pretty clear in the requirement for having an icon in the notification area in order to display a notification:</p> <blockquote> <p>To display a notification, <strong>you must have an icon in the notification area</strong>. In certain cases, such as Microsoft Communicator or battery level, that icon will already be present. In many other cases, however, you will add an icon to the notification area only as long as is needed to show the notification.</p> </blockquote> <p>Since I do not wish to add any icon to the notification area, I was thinking of perhaps "reusing" an existing one that is most likely to be there on a <em>typical</em> desktop. A good candidate may be the system clock.</p> <p>My questions are:</p> <ol> <li>How do I find/enumerate the NOTIFYICONDATA structure for the system clock (AKA "Date and Time Properties" when restored)?</li> <li>Is there a better way of accomplishing this (<em>without</em> adding an icon)?</li> </ol>
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    1. COYour quote specifically says you can't do this - I don't understand what your actual question might be: "The docs say I can't, but I want to anyway. How?" If you could hijack an existing notification icon, that would be a pretty wide security hole for malware, don't you think? Voting to close as "not a real question".
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    2. CO@Ken White Thanks for your answer. My first question specifically asks about re-using an existing icon. No hijacking, just sending a displayable **TEXT** message. There shouldn't be any security risk associated, as sending text-to-be-displayed to my own icon or to another icon should result in exactly the same. Unless you can explain otherwise, of course.
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    3. COSorry. Misunderstood your question somewhat; it's still not going to work, though, as the docs specifically state. There are only a couple of ways to pass text between apps safely (since the text is actually a character pointer), and notifications are not included in those ways. I don't understand the desire to avoid adding an icon, however, since that is *exactly* how they're designed to be used even for short purposes (as noted in the last sentence of your docs quote above).
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